Title: Loving the Wounded Warrior
Series: Love at Last #2
Series: Love at Last #2
Author: Adriana Anders
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 14 June 2018
Blurb
One tent. One Night. Once last chance.
She was my best friend's little sister—and the woman who
ruined my life. O'Neal Jones was the last person I expected to run into on this mountain in the middle of nowhere.
I wanted her, even if it was a bad idea.
But this thing between us was dangerous. It tore through flesh and bone to sear my soul.
Then, in the course of one night, she worked her way into my tent and my
sleeping bag...
The question was, could I heal my wounds enough to let her into my heart?
Loving the Wounded Warrior is a sexy
standalone novella, in the Love at Last series.
*Originally published in the Rogue Affair A
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Excerpt
“Stop,” I gasped out, before our mouths connected. To his
credit, the man didn’t hesitate at all. He was out of my space before the
letter p quit resonating.
“You okay?”
“Yeah, I just…” I grimaced, waiting for the thrumming in my
chest to subside.
“We don’t have to do anything. You know that.” He made as if
to slide out of his bag, the words rushed, his voice a little too loud. “You
take the tent. I’ll go outside, give you some space.”
It would have been easy to feed him some BS about a
headache, but that wasn’t my way. “Wait.” I set a hand on his arm. “I’m not used to this.”
“Kissing strangers in tents?” He huffed out an impatient
sound. “Or not kissing them, I guess.”
“No. No, that’s not it.”
“So, you are used to kissing strangers in tents?” There was a smile in his voice.
A nervous giggle escaped me and I sat up, my head almost
brushing the ceiling of this tiny space. He was so big and this tent was too
small, too tight, too…something. The smells, the sounds, so subtle, but more than any half-drunken, fully-clothed door bang. “Maybe it’s cause I knew you as a kid, but I…I don’t think so. I think it’s…” Jesus. I
swallowed and worked hard to catch my breath. “I don’t feel sorry for you,
okay? Just so that’s clear. But there’s this…sadness to you that’s got its
claws in me. I want to fix it. God, I know that sounds fucked up. And it’s not like me at all. But I want to take it, maybe? Make it better. Smooth it out or swallow some of it?”
He cleared his throat as if he’d say something, but nothing
came out and, since I was afraid to look at him, I plowed right through.
“You’re not my type, Kurt. My usual M.O.’s more confident asshole than broken soldier, I guess.”
“Broken Marine,” he corrected.
“Marine. Right. I didn’t mean to insinuate that there’s
anything wrong with— Oh, fuck it, come here.”
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The Author
Adriana Anders is the award-winning author of the Blank
Canvas series. Under Her Skin, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017, has been featured in Bustle, USA Today Happy Ever After, and Book Riot. Today, she resides with her tall French husband and two small children in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she writes the gritty, emotional love stories of her heart.
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